Earnest & Spiritus Works

The challenge of surviving in the present world is based on one's ability to evolve into a fulfilled person leading a meaningful life.  The series involves a practical and eclectic process that will facilitate the participant's personal growth and help him/her determine a clearer direction in life. 

1.  Journey-ing Inward: The Process of Values Development

A workshop that helps one explore personal history, thereby, understanding one’s personal dynamics -- strengths and weaknesses, issues, and value system -- and move towards integration and wholeness.

Topics include:

Requisites for Personal Growth and Change

Getting in Touch with My Personhood

The Family: Roots and Wings of Personhood

Paralysis in Life

Discerning Personal Values

Charting Personal Consciousness Track

2.  Effective Coping Skills

An overview of stress, stress management and burn out and specific ways to cope with them; emphasis is given to discerning the attitudinal sources of stress that are distorted and unhealthy with some coaching on relaxation and prayer.

Topics include:

Overview of Stress, Stress Management and Coping Styles

Burn Out Test/Resiliency Inventory

Five Building Blocks of Resiliency

Relaxation Techniques

Prayer

Vision Therapy: An Attitudinal Change Program

Vision of Self: Dynamics of Self-Concept

Vision of Others

3.  Sexuality Program

A process of understanding and appreciating sexuality and getting in touch with one's psychosexual dynamics; exploration of three major aspects—one's choice of vocation or state of life, issues in relationships and the management of sexual energies.

Topics include:

Getting In Touch With One's Sexuality

Tracing Psychosexual History

Stages of Psychosexual Development

Gender Definitions

Relationship and Intimacy

Managing Sexual Energies

4.  Relationship Enhancement

A program that coaches participants in the art and skill of making relationships healthy; stress is given to effective communication and its role in peaceful conflict resolution.

Topics include:

Keys to a Healthy Relationship

Relationship Inventory

Personal Nature and Styles

Effective Communication

Roadblocks to Communication

Empathy

Active Listening

Confrontation/Assertion

Conflict Resolution

5.  Impacting: The Psychology of Power and Empowerment

A reflection of one's source of power and ways by which one can empower both self and others; empowerment in three specific institutions are explored—family, school and organizations.

Topics include:

On Personal Power

The Power of Self-Worth: Nibble Theory and Kernel of Power

The Power of Vision and Mission: Creating a Mission Statement

The Power of Leading with Honor: Principle-Centered Power

On Empowering Others:

Healthy Parenting (for parents)

An Integrated and Holistic Approach to Values Education (for teachers)

Stages of Personal Power and the Spiritual Journey

6.  Basic Counseling Skills

The Orientation and practice of basic skills in the conduct of individual counseling.

Topics include:

The Counseling Process

Qualities and Behaviors of Effective and Ineffective Counselors

Communication Skills

Counseling Interventions:

Affective: Managing Emotions

Behavioral: Behavior Modification

Cognitive: Vision Therapy

Value Dilemma: The Clarifying Response

Ethics in Counseling

The Religious Dimension of Counseling

7.  Parenting: Your Greatest Gift For Your Greatest Love

An overview of the basic requisites in parenting and the important dimensions in the psychosocial development of children, based on the book, Your Greatest Gift For Your Greatest Love.

Topics include:

Orientation to Your Greatest Gift For Your Greatest Love Framework

Parenting as a Role and Choice

The Person of the Parent

The Goal of Parenting

Parenting as a Collaborative Effort

The First Gift: Forming Positive and Healthy Self-Worth

The Second Gift: Cultivating Healthy Sexuality

The Third Gift: Teaching Effective Coping Skills

The Fourth Gift: Building Children's Character

8.  Training of Trainers For Parent Enrichment

A follow-up to parenting, where parents and teachers who feel called to minister to those caring for and nurturing children, are oriented and trained to utilize the book, Your Greatest Gift For Your Greatest Love, as training material and guide.

Topics include:

Orientation to the Framework of the Parenting Guidebook

The Total Person Experiential Learning Process

Practicum and Critiquing

Guidelines for Facilitator Responses

Conducting a Lecture

Strategizing a Parent Enrichment Program

9.  Heart Sense: Guide to Emotional Wellness

A program that teaches one to appreciate and befriend emotions and sharpens one's ability to respond to the invitation of each emotion.

Topics include:

The World of Emotions—Its Nature and Management

In Pursuit of Happiness

Loneliness as a Spiritual Quest

The Art of Purposeful Anger

Letting Go of Irrational Fears

Freedom from Neurotic Guilt

Grieving Well

10.  Heart Sense Retreat

A two-day process to recollect and listen to one’s present emotional experiences, to name the questions that are evoked by them, and to translate these questions as God’s invitation for us to consider as quests to take on.

Topics include:

The Nature of Emotions

In My Heart

The Examination of Emotions: Questions That Are Evoked

Emotions as “Quests I Am On”

A Dialogue with God

11.  Compassion Fatigue

A seminar that guides the helping professional to examine the various factors that lead to Compassion Fatigue and to identify the ways by which one can prevent this.

Topics include:

Compassion Fatigue Inventory

Overview of Compassion Fatigue

Issues Related to Compassion Fatigue: Self-Care

Helping with Boundaries

Meaningful Connections

Combating Attitudinal Sources of Compassion Fatigue

Relaxation and Prayer

12.  Psycho-spiritual Approaches to Accompanying People

A program that provides an overview of the three-dimensions in psycho-spiritual growth – psychological work, spiritual practice and mystical experiences. Two tools are utilized as ways to direct people in their psycho-spiritual integration: one, discovering the hero within and the twelve archetypes that will guide us in the various cycles of our soul’s journey; and two, attending to the guidance of values that comes to us as synchronicity.

Topics include:

Overview of Psycho-spiritual Growth

Soul’s Journey: Awaken the Hero Within

Synchronicity and Divine Interaction: Guided by Values

13.  The Midlife Experience

An overview of the midlife stage of human development and the various invitations and challenges that come with it.

Topics include:

Overview of Midlife

Midlife Inventory and Midlife Invitations

Physical Adjustments: Body Mapping

Psychological Workouts: Reviewing Eight Stages of Life

Spiritual Practices: Letting Go of FACE

Mystical Experiences: Guidance of Our Archetypes

Ritual on Movements and Stillness

Ritual on What’s Cooking?

14.  The Art of Purposeful Retirement

A perspective to retiring with readiness, excitement and purpose.

Topics include:

Distinction between Retirement and Purposeful Retirement

Issues and Indicators

Six Dimensions of Purposeful Retirement:

Retirement Planning

Zenployment

Leisure Pursuits

Be-Happy-Attitudes

Slowing Down the Aging Process

Post-Retirement Plans

15.  New Topics

A.  Possessing A Resilient Spirit

B.  Professionalism

C.  Creating A Positive School Climate (for Guidance Counselors)

D.  Enhancing Organizational Climate (for Human Resource Managers)

E.  Introducing Artful Learning In The Classroom

Assists in the assessment, design and conduct of programs, as applied to either classroom teaching or organizational development, specifically in the aspect of values development.

Helps in teaching and reviewing the conduct of integrating valuing processes in various subject areas; advises also human resource personnel in the planning of value-oriented processes, particularly in the aspect of aligning worker's personal value system with the vision and core values of the institution.

Serves as both the editor of the valuing process aspect and the contributor of modules for the four sourcebooks of the Asia Pacific Network for International and Values Education (APNIEVE): Learning to Live Together in Peace and Harmony; Learning To Be—A Holistic and Integrated Approach to Values Education for Human Development; Learning To Do; Values for Learning and Working Together in a Global World; and Learning To Know for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future.

Designs and writes programs and modules according to various needs of institutions, some of which are:

1.  A three-year formation program for candidates of the Salesian Religious Order:

a.  Junior Year: Making Connections

b.  Senior Year: Breaking Free

c.  Pre-Postulancy: Empowered

2.  A five-part formation program for lay missionaries of the Asian Region Mission (ARM):

a.  Mission Awareness Program (A Weekend Orientation Seminar)

b.  Discernment Phase (An Individually-Guided Retreat Process and

A Community-Assisted Discernment Program

c.  Mission Preparation (An Orientation Seminar and Self-Management Workshop)

d.  Leadership for the Pastoral Care of Missioners (A Five-Day Training Program)

e.  Post-Mission Phase (A Program for Re-entry and Re-integration)

3.  An enrichment program for families that are community-based, sponsored by Consuelo Foundation.

 Teamed with Miriam Graduate School, we have come up with the following:

a.  The Family Life Enrichment Workshop (FLEW) Program

b.  Training Manual for Facilitators of FLEW

4.  Teacher Training Modules for the Secondary Education Development Program (SEDP)

of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports:

a.  Human Intimacy: Psychosocial Dynamics of Personal and Interpersonal Relations

b.  The Clarification and Integration of Values

c.  The Development of Self-Concept

d.  The Development of Human Creativity

e.  Instrumental Skills and Values Development (co-author Belen Mandin)

f.  Home-School Partnership (unpublished)

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